Môwʼâb — H4124

H4124 · Hebrew — מואב

Pronunciation: mo-awb

Definition

masculine proper noun

Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants

  1. Moab = "of his father"
  2. n pr m
  3. a son of Lot by his eldest daughter
  4. the nation descended from the son of Lot
  5. n pr loc
  6. the land inhabited by the descendants of the son of Lot

Usually translated as

Moab

Origin

from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m-and H1; from (her (the mother's)) father

Occurrences

Môwʼâb occurs 181 times in 158 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (1), Numbers (30), Deuteronomy (10), Joshua (2), Judges (12), Ruth (6), 1 Samuel (4), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (15), 1 Chronicles (6), 2 Chronicles (4), Psalms (3), Isaiah (16), Jeremiah (33), Ezekiel (3), Daniel (1), Amos (2), Micah (1), Zephaniah (2)

Strong's Lexicon — M